Progressivism

I joined WDC to promote my book of memoirs, Joe Smith, the Original.  There’s my Aquarian way and the government way.  The proof is in the pudding. If my life could be any better, I don’t know how.  There is nothing I like better than a good debate. I learn a lot from debate. So, here goes. Let’s debate!

Obama is the cosmic nurturer fading away, his tune, Darling, I Am Growing Old. Obama is from the Picean past.  President Obama campaigned that if elected he would “transform” America. That sounded good. At the time, the American people were fed up with the Bush Administration.  Too bad, so sad. The transformation we are witnessing today began in Theodore Roosevelt’s Administration, more than a hundred years ago, its bases the same ideology as Marxism: class warfare—take from the rich and give to the poor. “If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it’s a duck”—whatever—progressivism  differs from Marxism, says Fox News’ Glenn Beck, only in that Marxism advocates revolution; progressivism, evolution.  Alas, America’s progressivism, over the past century, has been the gradual process of turning God-given rights into government entitlements.

The Holy Catholic Church, in the fourteenth century, maintained  that the planet Earth was the center of the universe.  America’s progressives maintain that Washington, D.C. is at the center of the universe.  I maintain that the individual is at the center of the universe. My authority comes from natural law and the cutting edge of science: before anything is there, universal consciousness is there, of which I’m consciously aware.  I understand quantum physics and its latest discoveries. 

Incidentally, I was born in September, 1925, the month and year that physicist Werner Heisenburg  published his uncertainty principle, the forerunner of quantum mechanics.  Heisenburg was Hitler’s atom bomb builder. His plant was bombed to the ground. It isn’t well known, but Hitler had a rocket capable of reaching New York City. If he had been first with the atom bomb, the outcome of World War II would have been different. The atom bomb saved America and the free world.

Interestingly, I was on the high seas heading for the invasion of Japan’s main island when the United States dropped two atom bombs on Japan, thus ending World War II. I sailed into Yokohama Harbor, disembarked, and remained in Japan for eight months in the Army of Occupation.  Don’t knock the atom bomb. If the United States had not used it, a great many more lives would have been lost. 

The progressive order of the universe leaves humanity with increasing purpose.  St. Augustine said: “Distinguish the ages, and the Scriptures harmonize.”  When will we ever learn?  Before the Civil War, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a black person could be constitutionally owned by a white person.  In other words, God-given rights applied only to white people.  Most of us today think that idea is outrageous, but not when the Supreme Court made its insane ruling.  The Supreme Court goes along with what it believes is the national will.  Black slavery was necessary for the South’s economy.  Anything for the economy, hmmm!

The progressive movement has now brainwashed the American people into believing civil rights supersede natural rights. The Supreme Court has what it calls the “preferred freedoms” concept.  Because black people haven’t had an equal break in the past, they deserve a better than equal break now to make up for the past.  It makes absolutely no sense. Instead of educating them, the idea is to keep them ignorant and enslaved to government handouts.  Bottom line: the good of all is whatever is good for ever-growing  government.  The more government takes and gives the more it grows.  That’s progressive government.

The God is dead guy, Nietzsche, questioned whether God made a mistake when he created man or did man make a mistake when he created God.  Obviously, the latter is the case. There can logically be only one God, or as the cutting edge of science and I believe, the Supreme Consciousness of the universe. God-given rights, the question, what’s the fundamental difference in black slavery and tax slavery? 

Progressivism imposes no limit on tax and no limit on redistribution of the nation’s wealth.  The Supreme court, based on national will, asserts that the Constitution is to be interpreted, according to the judges on the bench, in light of today’s needs.  When civil rights supersede natural rights, the vote could sanction robbery. The individual with zero rights; government with all the rights, with Obama at the helm the individual is playing the wheel of fortune.

President Obama campaigned as a Roosevelt Democrat. In 1933, the year Franklin D. Roosevelt took office, he declared, “While it isn’t written in the Constitution, nevertheless, it is the inherent duty of the Federal Government to keep its citizens from starvation.”  America was suffering the Great Depression.  In order to avoid another Great Depression, the same as Bush, Obama plunged the United States into far greater debt than the Bush Administration had already, by bailing out corrupt Wall Street bankers, and further added to the rapidly mounting debt with his rushed-through-Congress “stimulus package, “  all of which put off on future taxpayers vastly more debt to pay.  And what’s his answer? He’s going to spend us into prosperity.  For shame!

There are those of us who live by their gut feelings, and those of us who live by what we think.  The stars say I’m here to use and develop my mind, and that I should not hide my light under a bushel. Obama’s mentor, FDR, established the National Recovery Act (NRA).  The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.  Asserted FDR, “The balance of power between the three great branches of the Federal Government has been tipped out of balance by the Court in direct contradiction of the high purposes of the Framers of the Constitution. We have reached the point where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court.”  Clearly Roosevelt, the politician, lived by his gut feeling. If he ever had a mind, it flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

The  “old” Court, using its mind, based its ruling on the test of individual rights, which was, at that time, “the very essence of ordered liberty,” by reason that neither liberty nor justice would exist if such a right were sacrificed. Asserted the Court: “A tax to promote the general welfare cannot be wrested out of its setting and legalized by ignoring its purpose as the mere instrumentality for bringing about a desired end.”

But no, a Roosevelt appointee, Justice Brandeis, using gut feeling, in blatant disagreement with the “old” Court, declared: “Property is only a means. It has been a frequent error of our Court that they have made the means the end.”  Was the Roosevelt means, New Deal law, justified by its end?  Thanks to Roosevelt, we’ve now runaway government?  Dear friends, the means justified by the end has resulted, in the past 75 years, in hundreds of millions of people being starved to death, gassed to death, tortured to death, and machine-gunned to death.  In their passions to do good, men have often turned into monsters.  Which is better, gut feeling or the mind?

We have for example Harvard Law School graduate Barrack Obama, who, using his gut feeling, has said the Constitution is composed of negative rights.  Do say? He wants to rewrite it to his Harvard way of thinking. He appointed to the Supreme Court a judge who said a Latino woman makes a better judge than a white male.  What else but gut feeling?  Because I use my mind, I’m having difficulty with that idea.  With Obama, call it what you will, it is clearly class warfare: the carrot and stick approach, the American people jumping through Obama’s hoops. Give me a break!

Obama believes, sincerely and emphatically—from his gut—that he has a duty to the individual, and he expresses it very well.  He is very good with words. With his Harvard education, Obama believes the individual is not as well equipped as he is to know what is best, and boy, does his appearance impress his following!  He looks ever so authoritative, but Obama, with his gut feeling, really doesn’t know whether he is afoot or horseback.  To we who use our minds, he’s contradictory and talks in platitudes.

A tax to promote the general welfare; that is, the General Wefare Clause of the U. S. Constitution, in no way implying the welfare state, but Obama’s  “general welfare,” in the purest sense: take from the rich and give to the poor—the choice is yours—which is better for your individual security, God-given rights or government entitlement?

My Constitution and your Constitution was ordained by the people.  Obama’s Constitution would be for government taking control of the individual. Take a look at history.  Exchanging your God-given rights for government entitlement is fool’s gold.  What say you?